Can our personality change over the course of our lives?
Yes, according to Theresa E. DiDonato, social psychologist and professor of psychology at Loyola University Maryland (United States), who, in an article published on the
Psychology Today
website on March 11, describes how certain major "relationship events" , such as the birth of a child or a divorce, can change our personality traits.
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“Research shows again and again that the worlds we live in can have a surprising effect on seemingly stable aspects of the “self,” such as personality,” the social psychologist emphasizes at the start of the article.
More precisely, it is based here on the conclusions of recent studies (2023) which examined variations in the five major personality traits over more…
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